Kitty Carlisle Hart (right) with Groucho Marx in A Night at the Opera
Actress and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle Hart has died at 96 years of age. Like many of my generation, I remember her from the second round of the television show, To Tell the Truth - the daytime version. But there was much, much more to her remarkable life than television, of course. Here is an excerpt of her obituary from The New York Times:
"Kitty Carlisle Hart, who began her career in the theater in a 1932 musical comedy revue on Broadway, acted in films and opera and was still singing on the stage, into her 10th decade, as recently as last fall, died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. The cause was heart failure, her daughter, Catherine Hart, said. Outgoing and energetic, Miss Carlisle became in her middle years a visible advocate of the arts, lobbying the New York State Legislature and the United States Congress for funding. For 20 years, first as a member and later as chairman of the New York Council on the Arts, she crisscrossed the state to support rural string quartets, small theater groups and inner-city dance troupes."
Read full text of Kitty Carlisle Hart's New York Times obituary
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